The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 24, 1924, Page 2

Page Two PRESIDENT OF CARPENTERS LOCAL QUITS Expulsion of Militants Proves Hot Potato The reactionary tools of President Hutcheson, of the In- ternational Brotherhood of Car- penters and Joiners, in local 181 of this city, bit off more than they could chew when they un- dertook to railroad five militants out of the organization without the semblance of legality or trial according to the consti- tution. At a meeting held last Monday night, the president of the local, Albert Jorgenson, resigned. There was to do as he was” ction in acting 1 Hutcheson, in the radicals. He is now use to the chief fakers so y drop him like a hot potato. resident, also a machine 2 at the meeting. f the trial commit- h of five have tee orn to an affidavit that the expelled members did not plead guilty the falsified report of the farcical trial declared. The chair man howev to have the case reopened that is was now up to the gener: dent. As the expelled members did not have trial they feel that no action Mas yet been taken by the local that ‘would render it obligatory on their part to appeal to the general president. They did not have a jal to which they are entitled, as the membership agrees that the cooked-up proceedings against them was worse than anything that could be framed in a capitalist court. The fight to secure justice thru working class action for the railroaded members of local 181 has only started. The members of the union should attend every meeting and not allow the victory to the reactionaries by default. They figure on. the apathy of the majority of the membership and are adopting a policy of tiring out the Opposition. The militants must or- €anize their forces to meet the machina. tions and tricks of the bosses’ lackeys. The members of the local note that John Steffen chairman of the so-called trial committee appears to have been rewarded without undue delay. He is ~-now, in Indianapolis, in the Tabulating ittee, and the work of that outfit is to count Hutcheson in as international president. EDITOR GETS 3 MONTHS GHARGING EBERT IS LOYAL TO WORKERS MAGDEBURG, Germany, Dec. 23.—Editor Rothard was sentenced today to three months imprisonment and he must pay the cost of the libel trial in which he was accused of libeling President Ebert by saying that Ebert was guilty of treason dur- ing the war, The decision of the court was taken by Ebert’s friends as a com- plete vindication. The Rothard article alleged that Ebert had ben active in bringing The five per cent increase in wages |railroad labor board was no increase then they have been constantly trying + to take those conditions from us. We jused to get ten miles for ‘doubling’ |a hill, i. @, when our train was so jheavy we had to cut off on the side of the hill and take the train up a piece at a time, Likewise we got ten miles for running for water between tanks. Certain other conditions, too, we traded to the employers and the labor board to bring out a peaceful culmination of the Adamson law. We jare considered overpaid when we jreceive seven dollars a day. Our over- |time pay is blood money, and we un- |dermine our health when we get it”. McNall then told of the short life of the engineer, whose arduous oc- jcupation kills or wrecks him at an jearly age. “The average life of an | engineer from his promotion to his |death, discharge or retirement is) ‘eleven and four tenths years” Mc “Since 1909 I have seen Nall said. fifty-seven of our engineers discharged for some slight lapse, 19 retired on ac- count of health, and 17 of our brave fellows go to their deaths after the manner traditional of a man who does his duty, ‘died at the throttle’. “Considering we have only about 78 men in all on our division, you. can see that 93 men have been sacrificed in 15 years, and only 78 working. We are charged double rate for insurance that we may leave our families comfortable when we get bumped off. The engin- eers have to stand a harder physical examination than do recruits in the United States army, and the minute a man gets deaf or nearsighted or color- blind, he is cast aside, his services no longer satisfactory. “The time has come that unless you force your employer you will get, not an increase, but a decrease in wages. Cappellini, the Traitor, Wages War on Miners (Continued from page 1) district and national union? Will you as mine workers of the Pittston aistrict be benefited? These are the questions you should ask your- self now. In fact, you should have asked them before you laid down your tools. Had you done so and acted In accord with your contract, there would have been no strike, “As a result of the general com- mittee calling an illegal strike, you have lost your membership In the United Mine Workers’ organization, but let me say to you, the door is not locked, only closed. To open it you must first show that you will, as your consciences must nec- essarily dictate, return to work and by your contract; if you do this you will find the officers of the United Mine Workers of America, the organization you should be members of, ready and willing at all times to it you in adjust- ing your gri ices as provided by agreement solemnly entered into. “RINALDO CAPPELLINI, “District President.” The above is Cappelini’s pour-out | THRU LABOR BOARD'S DECISIONS | | ENGINEERS HAVE LOST WORKING RULES GAINED BY THEIR UNION |working conditions which had been obtained by enginemen and firemen after years of bitter struggle against the employers, many years a railroad firemen and then an engineer, tells just what hard- ships the engineers and firemen must face. “Before we ever had a union,” ssid McNall, who now resides in Green- wood. Mo.. “certain conditions were granted us by our employers, and since eee recently granted by the United States at all, as it lowered the standard of Robert ©. McNall, for CHILDREN MUST BEAR BRUNT OF SCHOOL DEFICIT Classes Will Be Made to Hold More Pupils Recommendation that class room memberships be increased in order tc save the city $411,400 in teachers’ salaries was made to the building and grounds committee of the board of education by Superintedent of Schools McAndrew. McAndrew rec- ommended a classroom of at least 44 pupils each. Educators declare that this number is entirely too high if the vhildren are to get anything out of their schooling. The board of trustees received a let: ter from the Teachers’ Federation charging that the children are being made to pay the penalty for tax graft. This recommendation is to come be- fore the finance committee meeting for final passage. It is expected that it will meet with much disapproval at meeting. However discussion on this measure has been going on now ‘or over three months and it is certain that it will finally go thru since it is evident that the only real pressure brot by the board for relieving finance shortage is economy at the expense of education. So far there is no indi cation that the schoo) board intends to go after the money stolen from the school treasury by the tax graft ers. to see if you can convince yourself that a “labor leader” is responsible for it. “Traitor” is too good @ mame for a man of his ilk! He b fully starts his statement of acts” with “I refuse to call any more meetings of the executive board to meet with the general grievance committee,” so I must repeat my charge that he deserted “his illegiti- mate child.” From the time of its organization and until Cappelini won for himself the position of president of district one, he had proclaimed that the only way the anthracite miners could se- cure justice, was thru the instrumen- tality of these general bodies. Now on Lewis Payroll, However, his gang did succeed in electing Brennan with that kind of fight in 191, and our “hero” in the Lewis act of today, because an .or- ganizer. His whole statement of “facts,” if sent out unsigned, could very easily he mistaken for an opera- tors’ document. Driving Them Back. Ic does nothing but tell them what he and Lewis have told them since the start of the strike, which is, to $0 back to work and observe the “sa- cred contract.” No pretense is made to tell the readers of the capitalist press that the strike was brought about by flagrant violations on the about a strike among munition |of “facts” as promised to the capital. |2%t of the operators; that the strike workers, ITH the issue of January 13 year old. Our First Birthday ist press. Read it again, please, just the DAILY WORKER will be one In celebration of this event it will be an issue of 12 pages—a birthday number that will outshine any issue of our paper that has yet been pub- lished. It will contain special features of value to every militant in the is to save the conditions that have won by the organized, efforts of these meu, thru the instrumentality of the general grievance committee’s nor doves he say to the strikers, that he will prevent the operators from tak- ing away the conditions that are the subject of discussion, The Junk Pile. The men are determined to win their fight, even if they have to rele- gate the officials to the junk pile, and action in that direction is now being taken. Already the Lehigh Val- labor movement: cartoons by our very best artists; a review of the past year’s accomplishments in the world of labor on both economic and polit. ical fields—and the part the DAILY WORKER has played in them, Special articles, reviews, cartoons—12 pages heaped full of interest and value to begin the second year of the life of the DAILY WORKER, This issue on our very first birthday will be crammed full of facts of a busy year in the life of American labor; of facts concerning YOUR newspaper, Its financial stability and its circulation—and a record of its accomplishments for our party. Comrade Bob Minor will lead William Z. Foster, William F, Dunne, with his great cartoons. J. Louis Engdaht, Comrades Thomas J. O'Flaherty, Manue! Gomez are only a few of the talented writers who will contribute special features. It will be a great number to celebrate in proper fashion the very birthday of OUR paper. Join in the day party with an order at once! festivities—get Into this labor birth. Give this 12-page Issue to a worker you know and it will give the DAILY WORKER a new reader—and a new member for your branch, ORDER NOW! A bundle of 100 for $2.00 is the 2 CENTS A COPY. very least you should order, Make January 13 a national birthday party—with a bundle order! Send your remittance with this THE DAILY WORKER, 1113 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, blank: 1 want to celebrate the first birthday of my paper. | enclose §.... for a bundle order of. copies of the January 13 issue, ley general body has asked for a vot: in the locals that are attached to it, to consider a sympathy strike, and it is not unlikely that other such" bodies will take similar action. The Hudson general body which was promised action in ten days, be- fore Cappellini left to see his “boss.” John L. Lewis, at El Paso, has not had one word of encouragement yet concerning the disposition of their many grievances, Instead, it is claimed that a special meeting of the district board has been called for a future date, at which time the Hudson men will be asked to ap- pear before the board to relate their many grievances again, and then, ac- tion looking towards settlement will be started. This company keeps itself busy, giving parties and banquets to its employees to help them forget their troubles at the many mines it operates. Anthracite miners! It is time to wake up and throw off this yoke. U, S. Tractors to Russia. NEW YORK, Dec. 23—The second great shipment of American tractors to Russia goes this month, according to arrangements made by Amtorg Tra- ‘ing Corp, agents for the Russian state export and import bureau, The shipment is worth $1,600,000,. The iret 600 tractors go to Odessa and the second 1483 go to Novorossisk, Patronize our Advertisers, ae WILL NOT QUIT THE RHINELAND German Government in Delicate Position PARIS, Dec. 23—The council of ambassadors scheduled to meet tomor. row to consider the report on German disarmament, today announced it had postponed the meeting until Friday, te give the council added time to digest the contents of the report. Though Germany has been busy. thru Ambassador Von Hoesch, seek- ing the evacuation of Cologne by Jan. 10, the date originally scheduled there was a strong feeling here today that the contents of the disarmament report would lead to a postpanement of this date. Dawes Plan in Jeopardy. Ambassador Von Hoesch has argued that unless Cologne is evacuated, Ger many will not be able to select a gov: ernment capable of carrying out the Dawes plan, to which the foreign office has replied that if execution of th« Dawes plan rests on so slender ¢ foundation, it might be often in jeop ardy. Reports that Germany has not car ried out the disarmament terms of th: Versailles treaty have led to the be Nef that evacuation will not be car ried out. Working Old Trick, The interallied military committer presided over by Marshall Foch de cided that Germany had not carrie¢ out the provisions on disarmament o’ the Versailles treaty and was adoptinr the old trick practiced during the time of Napoleon, when a new. army was trained by the strategem of shifting men under arms, tho not increasing the number prescribed. Until recently the interallied com mission was in favor of giving Ger. many’s secret military preparations a good coat of whitewash and the pres- ent action came like a bolt from the blue. It is held in some quarters that the British decisions not to evacuate Cologne on Jan. 10, is connected with dissastisfaction over the operation of the Dawes plan. Misgivings as to Future. The social democrats and centriste who are the main support of the Dawes plan look with misgivings on the fu ture. The nationalist elements are taking advantage of the situation for factional purposes and there is ever talk of a putsch to dissolve the reich stag. Communists Gain Strength. In the meantime the Communis‘ Party ‘is growittg In power and num bers. In the recent national election: with practically all of its leading offi: cials in jail or in hiding, it polled over 3,500,000 votes or little less than in the previous election when it sen‘ 62 deputes to the rechstag. Local Chicago Goes Forward in Big Policy Drive (Continued from page 1) lieve the greater part of them will subscribe their full allotments. In the special twelve-page anni- versary edition of the DAILY WORK- ER a page will be reserved to list all those militant branches that have filled their quotas by January tenth of next year. LET CHICAGO LEAD THE COUNTRY! Push your collec- tions. Rush your branch reports to the Local Agent, Thurber Lewis, Room 307, 166 W. Washington St. Freezes to Death. CHICAGO, Dec. 23.—Failing to lo- cate on the “skid-road” any Coolidge prosperity, even to the extent of a shipment to some work camp, and not ossessing the price of a night's lodg- in Chicago, Oscar Johnson tried to avoid arrest for vagrancy by pass- ing the night curled up out of sight in @ fence corner. He was found in the morning, frozen to death, in the yard at 625 W. Madison. His empty pocket contained only a letter ad- dressed to him at Chicago, He was apparently 30 years old. More Museums in Russia. MOSCOW.—Before the war there were 50 museums in Russia, Now there are about 250. Large numbers are being opened in the provinces and many of the art treasures from former noblemen's homes in Leningrad are being sent to provincial museums, When you buy, get an “Ad.’" RAID QUITE HOME AND ARREST COUPLE ‘CAUSE * WIFE'S SKIN IS DARK In their effort to shield gunmen and th accomplices among the outrages committed by the police none is so dastardly as the one com- mitted against the quiet little family of the Andersons, ans Anderson Rosa, were and his colored dese upon at thelr home at 4628 St. Lawrence Ave., and thrown into cells at the 48th St. station, The reason given by Officers Mo- Morrow and McKenna for this at- rocious raid ona ful home was that they were tipped off that color- ed and whites were mixing. That myrag een Cone SNe et ree rests Editorial Room Slaves of Brass Check Press Must Now Be Organized By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. ° BH eslelah newspaper editorial workers constitute one of the most helpless lots of wage slaves to be found anywhere in the nation. They get little encouragement to organize. The juris- diction that the International Typographical Union once claimed over them has been surrendered. Repeated appeals to the American Federation of Labor, especially to its late president, Sam Gompers, to aid in their organization, has always fallen on deaf ears. The editorial worker today, for America’s kept press, is as helpless as the unorganized slaves of New England's textile mills and just as poorly, paid, * * * * It is estimated that there are about 3,200 editorial workers on Greater New York’s dailies. There must be tens of thousands over the nation. Howard A. Lamb, writing in “The Labor Age,” estimates that there are continually 500 jobless seeking work in New York City alone. It is estimated that there are 20 schools of journalism pouring at least 2,000 new workers into this field yearly. * * * * Workers on newspapers, mechanical as well as editorial, are faced with the large consolidations at frequent intervals, These are taking place continually . Frank Munsey, the steel trust millionaire, as well as newspaper and magazine pub- lisher, within a few months, has put the Globe, the Mail and the Herald out of business in New York. Competition for advertising is eliminated, dual and triple expenses are wiped out, bankrupt institutions are made good money- getters, for Munsey, while new thousands of workers are thrown idle upon the streets. The number of newspapers, in 1923, decreased by 81, four of them dailies, * * ca * It is an excellent situation for the newspaper owners. Fewers jobs and more hunting them, Meager wage scales still further beaten down under the growing pressure of the unemployed. Beginners in the editorial departments of the kept press, if they are lucky, may get the wages of low-paid steno- graphers, from $20 to $30 per week. Otherwise they will get much less, especially in smaller cities. Experienced men and women writers are forced to be content with a weekly wage of $35 to $50 per week. Anything above that is the exception rather than the rule. There is no limit to hours; ho power, except the boss’s will, to dictate the conditions of work. * * * * To be sure the newspaper owners fear the flare-back from these brutalizing conditions, While the Typographical Union and the Printing Pressmen’s Union, with other news- paper workers’ organizations, have their own “homes” to take care of the sick, the aged and the incapacitated, the editorial “down-and-outs” in New York, as an isolated ex- ample, are to receive the charity of the late James Gordon Bennett, former owner of the Herald. He has set aside $3,000,000 for the James Gordon Bennett Memorial Home for New York journalists. This charity, however, stands practically alone. Newspaper editorial workers are almost too docile even to receive this attention, * * * * It is to the interest of workers in all newspapers trades that the editorial workers be organized, These bea se white- collar brain workers must be convinced of their identity of interest with the mechanical workers, No newspaper wage agreement is complete unless it dictates wages, hours and conditions for the editorial room workers, as well as those who set the type, make-up the pages, mould the forms, run the presses, do the mailing and finally those who drive the wagons and the boys who sell the papers on the streets and deliver them to the homes. Similarly, no struggle is com- plete, no newspaper strike is 100 per cent, unless it calls out the editorial workers as well ay all the rest. ” The big newspaper owners are everywhere strengthen- ing their positions. They are ever ready to pick a weak spot in the front presented to them by the workers. One example is the recent bitterly fought strike of Hearst's sheet in Seattle, Wash., the Post-Intelligencer. Amalgamation is sorely needed by all newspaper work- ers, just as badly as the organization of the underpaid, over- worked editorial slaves is needed. Amalgamation of all the printing crafts will come. When it does come it must include all brain as well as hand workers. AMERICAN WORKERS SEND FRATERNAL GREETINGS TO VICTIMS OF FRENCH CAPITALIST BRUTALITY AND TERROR (1, W. A. Press Service) Wednesday, December 24, 1924 WHITE GUARD KILLS LEADER OF MACEDONIA Shoots Prof. Tchaulev in Milan Cafe (Special to The Dally Worker) ROME, Dec. 23.—An agent of the Bulgarian white guard Zankov gov- ernment, today shot and killed Pro- fessor Peter Tchaulev, a leader of the Macedonian League, in a small coffeehouse at Milan, Dimitri Stephanov, the white guard- ist, picked a quarrel with Professor Tchaulev, accusing him of being a Bolshevist agent. Tchaulev, an intel- lectual leader of the movement which aims to liberate Macedonia from all its present spoilers, including Bul- garia, Greece and Jugo-Slavia, re- plied in a conciliatory way, but Steph- The International Workers’ Aid, having learned of the widespread raids thruout France and the arrests of 300 of their fellow workers by the white guard movement, sends its fraternal greetings to the victims of the white terror, The International Workers’ Aid which is now conducting a campaign on behalf of thousands of workers in capitalist dungeons thruout Europe and Asia declares that the brutality and terrorization to which the capital- ists are resorting in their efforts to suppress the working clas are proving futile. American Workers Understand The American workers know what these wholesale arrests mean, In 1919 and 1920 the capitalists of America similarly resorted to such methods and despite the arrests of over 3000 and the deportations which are still going on, the capitalists and their henchmen could not succeed in intimi- dating the American workers, Such methods only aroused the indignation of millions of workers and those who carry them into effect have been poll- tically destroyed. Be assured, fellow workers of France, that the American workers are with you in your fight against the violent deeds employed by. your mastor class in its endeavor to enslave you. Dowu with imperialist brutality and terror! Long live the fighters, for the free- dom of the working class! Hail International solidarity of the workers and farmers! Union Bakers Fight R. R. Ward. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23.—Unon bakers at work in California are as- sessing themselves $1 per capita to fight the R. R. Ward Baking Co, octo- pus in the state. The company has taken over plants in many cities from San Diego northward and had prom- ised union representatives in particu- lar that the San Diego and Los Angeles bakeries would be unionized, These promises proved to be stalls to stave off union agitation. Now the union fight against the concern is on in earnest, ‘ anov drew a pistol and shot the: pro- fessor five times. Tchaulev Opposed Zankov. Professor Thaulev was one of the three most prominent leaders of the Macedonian League. This is a purely national liberation movement. How- ever, when the Zankov white guard overthrew the Stambulitsky peasant government of Bulgaria, the Macedon- ian League was inclined to oppose Zankov. The white guards, led by General Protoguerov, approached the Mace donians and made an agreement by offering some concessions, if the Mace- donians would limit their activity. After this was agreed upon, however, the white guards were triumphant over the peasant forces and turned upon the Macedonians, murdering many of them in cold blood, including Alexandrov, one of the three Mace- donian leaders along with Professor Tchaulev. Following this, Professor Tchauley announced that the Macedonian League would take a new position, and issued a program, advocating the federation of all Balkan countries in a union which would prevent the con- stant trespassing of one upon the other and the baiting of one another by imperialist intrigue of the greater powers. A United Front with Communists. To accomplish this, he advocated that the Macedonian League would enter a united front with any elements willing to fight for this alm. Natur- ally, only the Communists were inter- nationalists enough to agree. This was followed by an alliance between the various Balkan Communist par- ties and the Macedonian League. Wage Increase Sought by Building Trades Workers’ New Contract The demand of the Chicago build- ing trades workers for a flat wage of $1.50 an hour, which in the case of the carpenters is an increase of 20 per cent, has been the signal for the Building Construction Employes As- sociation to lament about “increased building costs.” The district council of the carpen- ters last sp: signed @ two-year con. tract with a wage rate of $1.25 an hour, but stipulated in the contract that a raise could be asked provided notice was given before Jan. 1. The carpenters have now served such notice, Plasterers, bricklayers, electric- jians, lathers and painters are already receiving $1.50 an hour. The steam- fitters receive $1.37% cents an hour and the ironworkers $1.25 an hour. ‘Not at Home,’ Says Bancroft to Japan’s Kick at Naval Show (Special to The Daily Worker) TOKYO, Dec. 23.—A delegation of nine, including members of the diet, called at the United States embassy at noon today seeking to discuss the scheduled Pacific naval maneuvers of the United States with Ambassador Edgar Bancroft and present a protest. Ambassador Bancroft was absent and the delegation refused to talk to Charge Caffrey who promised to ar- range a later interview with Bancroft. Close Ford Plant Ten Days. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 22.—Ford Mo- tor company plants at Highland Park, River Rouge, Northville, Phoenix f Nankin, employing aj 125,000 men, will close Wy night for the annual invent w will require ten days, bis (The secret will be out ‘in issue of the Daily.)